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Re: [newbie] core file

[Tom Brinkman]

On Wednesday 03 January 2001 03:39 pm, Paul wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, bascule wrote:
>
> You can delete it. This is generated when (usually as root) you run a
> Gnome program that crashes. Then a memory dump is generated called
> 'core'.
> Paul

 No, Bascule's not asking about core dumps, but about the core 
device, which definitely shouldn't be deleted.  A plain english 
explaination of /dev (and /proc) files is here. 
http://www.penguinmagazine.com/Magazine/This_Issue/0015
"Unlike ordinary files, device entries are actually pointers to device 
drivers in the kernel. Each entry has a "major" and "minor" number 
which correspond to a particular driver. These numbers correspond to a 
map of devices assigned by the kernel developers. The major number 
denotes the general class of the device, while the minor number 
specifies the exact device"

 Core dumps can be deleted, but they wouldn't be in either /dev or 
/proc.  This line placed at the end of /etc/bashrc, 'ulimit -c 0' will 
prevent core dumps from even being written.
-- 
Tom Brinkman   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

>
> >i have found a file named /dev/core which is approx 95mb (so it is
> > claimed) which points to /proc/kcore also 95mb in size, this
> > confuses me on 2 fronts, how could a symlink be 95mb in size and is
> > this normal, /proc/...being a virtual filesystem - do i need to
> > delete this file or not
> >
> >bascule

Re: [newbie] aol

[Po Kwok]

Jay wrote:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Does any body know how to get aol running under mandrake linux 7.2 ,
> > or any help / advice on how to run wine
> > E-mail me on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Thanks
> > :-)
> You can't run AOL under Linux, mention it again and we have to tar and
> feather you. :)
> --
> Jay
> ~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~
> http://www.mrsnooky.com

doesn't "Everybody" run as an AOL clone?  just wondering.

aston
sydney, australia

[newbie] KDE Fonts Gone Hogwild Large - Solved!

[Sevatio Octavio]

Salut,

I finally tracked down the solution to this annoyance with oversized 
fonts.  As per my previous email, this is caused by attempting to change 
the KDE panel clock to am/pm format through the right-click-option 
"Adjust Date & Time".

Solution:
EDIT THIS FILE: /home/yourname/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
GO FIND: [Locale]
AND CHANGE THE CHARSET LINE TO: Charset=unknown

It is this line that the process "Adjust Date & Time" changes resulting 
in assigning KDE with an unsupported ISO set.

I hope you made some sense of my above jibberish.

Seve

-Still Loving Linux more than ever & Spreadin' the word!!!


>> Original Message <<

On 1/3/01, 6:14:18 PM, Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: 
[newbie] KDE Fonts Gone Hogwild Large - Solutions?:


> On Wednesday 03 January 2001 07:38 am, you wrote:
> > r wrote:
> > > I'm running LM7.2 & KDE2 .  Problem: the menu fonts are way too big.  It
> > > happened after I tried adjusting the panel's clock to am/pm.
> > >
> > > How do we get the greatly oversized fonts down to normal?
> > >
> > > Seve

> Well I'll be darn...so that's what it was that did that? I had the same 
thing
> and now that you mention it it was just after adjusting the time thing. 
All I
> did was curse a few times when I got frustrated with it and kept working 
with
> the desktop/KDE fonts till I had them to the size and style I wanted and 
then
> restarted X. It took like 4 tried though until it settled down and worked
> correctly though.
> --
> Mark

> "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being 
worthless,"
> "Sharing is what makes them powerful."

>   Linus Torvalds

Re: [newbie] aol

[Jay]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Does any body know how to get aol running under mandrake linux 7.2 ,
> or any help / advice on how to run wine
> E-mail me on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Thanks
> :-)
You can't run AOL under Linux, mention it again and we have to tar and
feather you. :)
-- 
Jay
~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~
http://www.mrsnooky.com

Re: [newbie] core file

[Paul]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, bascule wrote:

You can delete it. This is generated when (usually as root) you run a
Gnome program that crashes. Then a memory dump is generated called 'core'.

Paul

>i have found a file named /dev/core which is approx 95mb (so it is claimed)
>which points to /proc/kcore also 95mb in size, this confuses me on 2 fronts,
>how could a symlink be 95mb in size and is this normal, /proc/...being a
>virtual filesystem - do i need to delete this file or not
>
>bascule
>

-- 
The world is becoming a madhouse.
And who does not adjust gets put away.

http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403
 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31

[newbie] Problem between Linux & WinNtServer4

[Claudio Cardenas]

I have installed win98 (2Gb-fat), winserver4 (3Gb-ntfs) and linux (3Gb-ext2)
in that order and in the moment to execute them, the one that has boot
problems is the winserver4, it leaves me an error message that doesn't exist
the file ntosknl.exe or has been damaged and in the moment to see the
partitions with the Partition Magic in win98, the ntfs no longer exists, it
is observed that they have united the winserver and linux in 1 single
partition (type85). What is the type85? and How can I install the 3
operating systems in a correct way?.

Claudio

Re: [newbie] Sound config problem

[Jordan]

No, it was disabled already. 

Paul wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Jordan wrote:
> 
> Does it help when you disable PNP in the Bios?
> 
> Paul
> 
> >New installation. (Mandrake 7.2)
> >
> >M'board: ASUS P5A-B with built-in sound chip CMI 8330.
> >Processor: Cyrix II 333MHz
> >BIOS: Award with latest flash update.
> >
> >What happens:
> >Linux is loaded, but when started no sound.
> >Config tools recognise the card, but don't fix it.
> >Error messages say things like: "invalid parameter parm_io"
> >"insmod sound_slot_0 failed"
> >
> >When Windows is loaded, sound works OK.
>

Re: [newbie] Sound config problem

[Jordan]

Tried that, no better unfortunately. 
Tried all listed manual options. 

Cyphfer wrote:
> 
> Run sndconfig from root.  It fixed my sound in less than a minute including the wav 
>and midi sound test.
> 
> Cyphfer
> 
> On Mon, 01 January 2001, Jordan wrote:
> 
> >
> > New installation. (Mandrake 7.2)
> >
> > M'board: ASUS P5A-B with built-in sound chip CMI 8330.
> > Processor: Cyrix II 333MHz
> > BIOS: Award with latest flash update.
> >
> > What happens:
> > Linux is loaded, but when started no sound.
> > Config tools recognise the card, but don't fix it.
> > Error messages say things like: "invalid parameter parm_io"
> > "insmod sound_slot_0 failed"
> >
> > When Windows is loaded, sound works OK.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping!
> http://www.shopping.altavista.com

[newbie] jserv

[Christopher Nallo]

I'm trying to install Apache jserv on linux mandrake 7.2.  The
installation process install apache for me.  First question is where is
the installatoin directory for apache.  The path in books and in appache
jserv documentation say the default directory is /usr/local/apache but I
don't have that directory.  When I go to
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/apache \
--enable-rule=SHARED_CORE \
--enable-module=so
make install
I have also tried this example but I don't know where the path to apache
installion directory is
--with-apxs=/path/to/apache/installation/bin/apxs

I have also tried an example in the book java programming on linux

./configure --with-apache-install=/usr --prefix=/opt/apache_jserv \
--with jsdk=/usr/local/Java/JSDK2.0

and it gives me the error ./configure no such file or directory.  Any
help anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated.


Thank You

Christopher Nallo

Re: [newbie] KDE 2 - KDE 2.01 Update - all gone wrong

[Robin Regennitter]

On Wednesday 03 January 2001 12:32 pm, you wrote:

on the third command should have been "update-menus",  not rebuild-menus.  
the menus should get all updated after you do the rpm --rebuilddb.

> Hi Rob,
>
> Thanks for the info. I did as you said.
>
> no errors after first two commands, but on entering the 3rd command
> (rebuild-menus) - I got the following after a couple of seconds:
>
>
> Can't locate File/Find.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/removekdesysmenu.pl line 18.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/removekdesysmenu.pl line 18.
>
> Any more clues now ?
>
> Thanks again (to everyone who has contributed to helping me so far)
>
> ;-)
>
> Sean Spencer.
>
> On Wednesday 03 January 2001 05:51, you wrote:
> > On Monday 01 January 2001 05:01 pm, you wrote:
> >
> > did you type in the console mode this:
> >
> > updatedb
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> > update-menus
> >
> > ?
> >
> > I believe that will solve your problem.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > > On Tuesday 02 January 2001 04:19 pm, you wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I just downloaded all the files needed to update my Mandrake 7.2 KDE
> > > > 2 to KDE 2.01. Now a lot of my links on the desktop don't work now.
> > > >
> > > > Please help me !
> > > >
> > > > Sean.
> > >
> > > Sean, did you download all of the files? How did you install? Kpackage
> > > or command line.  Sounds like one package may have been corrupted. I
> > > use gftp so that I can compare the saved file to the online file by
> > > looking at total bits of the two files.  Anyway, you can do it manually
> > > if you check them file by file.  There may be a better way, but I'm
> > > ignorant of it. Sorry.  I installed 2.0.1 from the kde ftp sites and it
> > > worked very well, then I downloaded the 2.1 beta and it seems a little
> > > buggy. Probably didn't help much, but again I'm betting on one corrupt
> > > file. Probly kdeutils .

Re: [newbie]StarOffice5.2 Printer set-up

[Robert Maynord]

Marcia:

It sounds like a problem I have had with Star Office.  I have found that Star 
Office must sometimes be set to Postscript Type 1, or it will not print.  The 
default in Star Office is Postscript Type 2.  Of course, this assumes that 
you are using the Generic Printer Queue.

Change the Star Office "Printer Properties/Device" setting to Postscript 2.

Perhaps this will help


Robert





On Wednesday 03 January 2001 06:01 am, you wrote:
> Dear All, I have Mandrake 7.2 and the cups printing with an Epson Stylus
> Color printer. It has been working fine with all applications except for
> the StarOffice 5.2 that I recently downloaded.
>
> I followed the directions for setting it up with 5.2 using the spadmin
> and choosing xpp. The xpp graphic dialog box comes up but when I push
> print it does not print. It says it printed but it does not. What else
> can I do to make this work? Thank you for your help. Marcia

[newbie] Kernel upgrade to 2.2.16 WRECKED USING UPDATEMGR

[Fernando . Proietto]

I did a stupid thing. I tried to update the Kernel from 2.2.X to 2.2.16
using the Update manager. Little needs to be said -- it didn't work. In fact
my system won't boot anymore. I get a System Panic can't mount root fs on
08:05. Anyway I need to back out of the Kernel upgrade. Does update manager
move the old Kernel and system.map ..etc to backups or does it overwrite
everything...?

I know I need to run a recovery shell. I'm using 'tomsrtbt ver 2.0.37' I can
boot with a floppy but I can't seem to mount the root (/) sda5 disk where my
original Linux is stored. Any help beyond this point would be great,
especially when I finally get the /boot mounted what do I do to repair the
flubbed-up Kernel upgrade? Anyone have any answers...?

Fernando Proietto
Linux 7.1
PII-350-128M

Re: [newbie] Error mounting ramdisk

[Mark Weaver]

On Wednesday 03 January 2001 11:46 am, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems installing LM7.2, when the installation CD boots up
> it starts the installation program but it produces the following error:
>
> mount failed: Invalid argument
>
> Then
>
> error mounting ramdisk (with a message about restarting the computer)
>
> I know the CDs work as I have used them on another PC. I can still
> install LM7.1 on the problem machine so I am hoping that my hardware is
> okay.
>
> Has anyone ever seen this before an dif so did you manage to fix it?
>
> Hardware:
>
> AMD Athlon 800
>
> IDE HD 10GB
>
> 128 MB RAM
>
> ATAPI CDROM
>
> --
> Thank you
> Robert Berry

Robert,

that is indicative of a hardware issue. Specifically your CDROM.
-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," 
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Linus Torvalds

Re: [newbie] KDE Fonts Gone Hogwild Large - Solutions?

[Mark Weaver]

You have to write the mailing list directly with that request and that 
address is,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Wednesday 03 January 2001 01:24 am, Skhumbuzo Mhlongo wrote:
> Hi,
>
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>
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>  -Original Message-
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> Sent: 03/01/2001 8:16 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  [newbie] KDE Fonts Gone Hogwild Large - Solutions?
>
> I'm running LM7.2 & KDE2 .  Problem: the menu fonts are way too big.  It
> happened after I tried adjusting the panel's clock to am/pm.
>
> How do we get the greatly oversized fonts down to normal?
>
> Seve
>
>
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-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," 
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Linus Torvalds

Re: [newbie] KDE Fonts Gone Hogwild Large - Solutions?

[Mark Weaver]

On Wednesday 03 January 2001 07:38 am, you wrote:
> r wrote:
> > I'm running LM7.2 & KDE2 .  Problem: the menu fonts are way too big.  It
> > happened after I tried adjusting the panel's clock to am/pm.
> >
> > How do we get the greatly oversized fonts down to normal?
> >
> > Seve

Well I'll be darn...so that's what it was that did that? I had the same thing 
and now that you mention it it was just after adjusting the time thing. All I 
did was curse a few times when I got frustrated with it and kept working with 
the desktop/KDE fonts till I had them to the size and style I wanted and then 
restarted X. It took like 4 tried though until it settled down and worked 
correctly though.
-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," 
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Linus Torvalds

[newbie] Zip Drive, Part II

[kneiper]

>I had to set up my zip 100 drive after 7.2 install to be able to mount and 
>umount at will. I followed the guide at
>http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/mountzip.html I used 
>the part added by jim C.  Hope this helps.

Tried all the advie, but none of it helped. Both my /mnt/zip and
/mnt/cdrom2 (my cd-rw that also won't work) are "locked" directories.

How do I "unlock" these pesky *%$#@...?
Mike Riffle

Morgantown, WV USA
http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm
Montani Semper Liberi
NRA   NMLRA   Friends of Fort Frederick
Prickett's Fort Memorial Foundation

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

[Mark Weaver]

> I had a similar problem with my Canon LBP430.  The new CUPS and drivers
> work.  Thank you for the pointer, and thank mandrake for the update!
>
> Kipling+
> (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)

Ok...I have a dumb question. Do the old Cups packages have to exist on the 
system when the updates are loaded onto the system, or can they be absent 
when the updates are added to the system? Cause I added the updates 
perscribed by Till and I still can't print, and sometimes not even a test 
page to print. Cups admin isn't able to connect to the Cups server and see 
the printer and on and on 
adfinitum...pukin-my-guts-out-cause-i'm-tired-O-this!@

Seriously though, when I installed the update packages I had just finished 
uninstalling the old cups packages and what-nots. Should I have not done it 
that way?
-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," 
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Linus Torvalds

[newbie] xemacs missing libraries?

[Bob Paddock]

I wanted to install xemacs, but the package manger tells me
it is missing a couple of libraries, libld*.so.1 and
libl*.so.1 some thing like that.  I can't find them, where
are they?

Re: [newbie] core file

[Tom Brinkman]

On Wednesday 03 January 2001 05:57 pm, bascule wrote:
> thanks tom,
> yes i have 96mb ram, it's a bit unnerving to know that file sizes can
> be lied about/misreported like that, is it just /dev/ entries that do
> this ? i know this has confused me before, i'm a gui person really
> and i need to know when to trust what konq is telling me!

   You weren't being lied to   You just happened to pick the 
one device file that connects the kernel and your ram.  Use konq to 
check out some other devices, like hda.  It will report -o- bytes. 
Google 'linux devices' if you want to find out some more about how 
these pretend files work.  Also check out 'linux device registrar'

 and how come you weren't curious that kong said /dev/core was 95mb 
when you have 96mb of ram ?  Short answer is prob'ly some hardware 
you've got is grabbin 1mb to use as virtual firmware. Sort'a a 
win-firmware deal ;
-- 
Tom Brinkman   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

> On Wednesday 03 January 2001  9:30 pm, you wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 January 2001 02:45 pm, bascule wrote:
> > > i have found a file named /dev/core which is approx 95mb (so it
> > > is claimed) which points to /proc/kcore also 95mb in size, this
> > > confuses me on 2 fronts, how could a symlink be 95mb in size and
> > > is this normal, /proc/...being a virtual filesystem - do i need
> > > to delete this file or not
> > >
> > > bascule
> >
> >These aren't really files. Yes, they're vitual, sometimes called
> > pretend files. My /dev/core is 256mb.  That's the amount of ram I
> > have. I take it you have 96 ?
> > type  'du -ch /dev/*'  (try /proc/* too) and you'll see that most
> > all the 'files' in /dev are -0- byte.The total for the whole
> > /dev directory should only be something over 100k, mostly due to
> > many 1/2k dir listings.  Don't delete anything in either /dev or
> > /proc

Re: [newbie] PMFirewall and PortSentry logging?

[Daniel J. Ferris]

Jon Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: 

> I have used PMFirewall for a long time, I just installed 
Portsentry, I can't
> seem to find where they keep logs or how you configure them to keep 
logs any
> help?
> 

/var/log/messages.

The dmesg command will also output logs from the kernel, which is 
where the firewall stuff resides.

Dan

Re: [newbie] Re-configuring kernel

[Riker]

Erik:

This happend to me with 7.2. What I had to do was install the kernel
source off of CD 2. There will be some dependencies that need to be
fullfilled but they are all on the CDs. Atleast it was for me. :)

Once you have the kernel source and dependencies installed, it should
work. This was my experience just a couple of days ago. 

Riker



Leif Erik Tronstad Svanø wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to re-configure my kernel, so I tried to the same as with
> redhat as root:
> this happend
> ..]#cd /usr/src/linux
> ..]#make oldconfig
> make: *** No rule to make target 'oldconfig'. Stop.
> ..]#make xconfig
> make: *** No rule to make target 'xconfig'. Stop.
> 
> What should I do instead? I'm using Mandrake7.1.

[newbie] totally off topic - win98 poledit question

[bascule]

i have been spending this evening trying to create a template for the win98 
system policy editor, a template with one entry! i have got nearly nowhere,
anyone who might have actually done this and could give me a bit of help by 
direct email would be a star in my book!

already i am not worthy!

bascule

Re: [newbie] core file

[bascule]

thanks tom,
yes i have 96mb ram, it's a bit unnerving to know that file sizes can be lied 
about/misreported like that, is it just /dev/ entries that do this ? i know 
this has confused me before, i'm a gui person really and i need to know when 
to trust what konq is telling me!

bascule

On Wednesday 03 January 2001  9:30 pm, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2001 02:45 pm, bascule wrote:
> > i have found a file named /dev/core which is approx 95mb (so it is
> > claimed) which points to /proc/kcore also 95mb in size, this confuses
> > me on 2 fronts, how could a symlink be 95mb in size and is this
> > normal, /proc/...being a virtual filesystem - do i need to delete
> > this file or not
> >
> > bascule
>
>These aren't really files. Yes, they're vitual, sometimes called
> pretend files. My /dev/core is 256mb.  That's the amount of ram I have.
> I take it you have 96 ?
> type  'du -ch /dev/*'  (try /proc/* too) and you'll see that most all
> the 'files' in /dev are -0- byte.The total for the whole /dev
> directory should only be something over 100k, mostly due to many 1/2k
> dir listings.  Don't delete anything in either /dev or /proc

Re: [newbie] aol

[Sean Spencer]

Take a look at this...

http://www.robnet.f2s.com/linux/aol.htm


On Wednesday 03 January 2001 23:31, you wrote:
> this was covered in depth a while back.  unless things have changed
> recently, you can't do it. however ---
> there are many AIM like programs on your linux box already
> also, there are some attempts out there to make AOL work under linux, but i
> have not been keeping up with them.  do an internet search on "aol linux"
> and such.  maybe things have advanced since we last discussed this on the
> list.
>
> Adrian Smith
> 'de telepone dude
> Telecom Dept.
> x 7042
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4:01:21 PM 1/3/01 >>>
>
> Does any body know how to get aol running under mandrake linux 7.2 ,
> or any help / advice on how to run wine
> E-mail me on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Thanks
>
> :-)

Re: [newbie] aol

[Adrian Smith]

this was covered in depth a while back.  unless things have changed recently, you 
can't do it.  
however ---
there are many AIM like programs on your linux box already
also, there are some attempts out there to make AOL work under linux, but i have not 
been keeping up with them.  do an internet search on "aol linux" and such.  maybe 
things have advanced since we last discussed this on the list.

Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
x 7042
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4:01:21 PM 1/3/01 >>>
Does any body know how to get aol running under mandrake linux 7.2 ,
or any help / advice on how to run wine
E-mail me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


Thanks 
:-)

Re: [newbie] I thought I was super user??

[David Thompson]

Ah yes, I typed my question in wrong.  On the linux screen I typed it in as
you suggested - with case sensitivity.  I also signed in as "root", not
"Root".


- Original Message -
From: "Leif Erik Tronstad Svanø" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] I thought I was super user??


> If you typed Linuxconf (as you wrote) you would get:
> bash: Linuxconf : command not found
>
> try typing linuxconf
>
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, David Thompson wrote:
>
> > I successfully log on as "Root" to my linux box and receive the
> > [root@Linux /root]# prompt.  When I issue the "Linuxconf" command, the
os
> > returns "bash: linuxconf : command not found".  Anybody help me on this?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > David Thompson
> >
> >
>
>

[newbie] aol

[Brettroyles]

Does any body know how to get aol running under mandrake linux 7.2 ,
or any help / advice on how to run wine
E-mail me on [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Thanks 
:-)

[newbie] Multiple Menu Entries

[Roger Pithers]

Following a failed install of Corel's Photo Paint, all traces of which have 
been removed, I now have four entries of each item on the menu.  Ihave tried 
using the menu editor and "update-menus" but with no result.  Can someone 
please help?  I am running 7.2 updated with the Mandrake update CD.

Thanks 
Roger

Re: [newbie] I thought I was super user??

[Leif Erik Tronstad Svanø]

If you typed Linuxconf (as you wrote) you would get:
bash: Linuxconf : command not found

try typing linuxconf 



On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, David Thompson wrote:

> I successfully log on as "Root" to my linux box and receive the
> [root@Linux /root]# prompt.  When I issue the "Linuxconf" command, the os
> returns "bash: linuxconf : command not found".  Anybody help me on this?
> Thanks!
> 
> David Thompson
> 
> 

Re: [newbie] zip driver permissions

[goldenpi]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> 
> Dear All, I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and I had my internal Atapi zip
> drive supermounted and it was working fine until recently. As user all
> of a sudden I cannot copy a file into my zip. I can take them out and
> place them unto my desktop but I cannot place a file into my zip. As
> root I can do it but not as user. It was working fine until a week ago
> and I did nothing to change it. What do I need to do manually in either
> fstab or through Linuxconf to make this work for user again? I have
> attached a screenshot of my fstab file. I have tried changing
> permissions with chmod, Linuxconf,etc. and nothing has worked. Any help
> will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia


Content-Type: image/png; name="fstab.png"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: 


Firstly, I suggers you attach the file rather than a screenshot of it. its much
smaller.

As for the problem, the files you might need to change the settings on are
/dev/sd*, /mnt/zip. I would just set the
other permissions on those.

the command is (as root):
chmod o+rwx /dev/sd*
chmod o+rwx /mnt/zip

see if that does anything. This will gice everyone write access to all your
scsi devies as a side-effect.#

And lasty, a problem of mine. Once again kmail is slowing everything down to
the point where there is a 5 second delay between me pushing abbutton and
anything happening on screen. Why? It makes typeing very hard and spelling even
harder/

-- 
==
Goldenpi - linux user, unreal editor, programer in 3 languages and all round
geek.

Re: [newbie] PMFirewall and PortSentry logging?

[Tom Brinkman]

On Tuesday 02 January 2001 11:24 am, Jon Doe wrote:
> I have used PMFirewall for a long time, I just installed Portsentry,
> I can't seem to find where they keep logs or how you configure them
> to keep logs any help?
Read this: 
/usr/share/doc/portsentry-1.0/README.install  (look at the other 
README's located here also)
Further help/suggestions are here:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/portsentry1.html
-- 
Tom Brinkman   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

[newbie]StarOffice5.2 Printer set-up

[marcia]

Dear All, I have Mandrake 7.2 and the cups printing with an Epson Stylus
Color printer. It has been working fine with all applications except for
the StarOffice 5.2 that I recently downloaded. 

I followed the directions for setting it up with 5.2 using the spadmin
and choosing xpp. The xpp graphic dialog box comes up but when I push
print it does not print. It says it printed but it does not. What else
can I do to make this work? Thank you for your help. Marcia

[newbie] Posting attachments (was Compiling KICQ with kde2)

[Tom Brinkman]

On Tuesday 02 January 2001 06:59 pm, Carl Lafferty wrote:

> I am away from my linux box right now or I would have
> included an exact screen shot..

to Not just Carl,

   Please don't.  It's very poor netiquette to post attachments to 
mailing lists, _particularly_ anything not plain text or over just a 
few K.  The number one rule for this group, as with most all mailing 
lists, is to use plain ASCII text only. So that precludes binaries, 
rtf, html, etc., as attachments or inline.

   In some unusual circumstances, a small plain text attachment is 
deemed necessary or requested by a large number of the group.  In that 
rare event, netiquette requires a warning, eg, [w/ATTACHMENT] in the 
subject line so most users can just delete the message unread. This is 
still poor netiquette tho, as many users have to download their email 
before they can delete it.
-- 
Tom Brinkman   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

[newbie] Error mounting ramdisk

[Robert Berry]

Hi,

I am having problems installing LM7.2, when the installation CD boots up
it starts the installation program but it produces the following error:

mount failed: Invalid argument

Then

error mounting ramdisk (with a message about restarting the computer)

I know the CDs work as I have used them on another PC. I can still
install LM7.1 on the problem machine so I am hoping that my hardware is
okay.

Has anyone ever seen this before an dif so did you manage to fix it?

Hardware:

AMD Athlon 800

IDE HD 10GB

128 MB RAM

ATAPI CDROM

--
Thank you
Robert Berry

Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm

[Tom Brinkman]

On Monday 01 January 2001 09:09 pm, Romanator wrote:
> I think I got mine working. I think it has something to do with what
> Tom emailed earlier today. There's some sort of anomaly with the
> time/date feature. You have to select Apply but not the OK button.
> Did you encounter  the same thing? Remember, this is for mdk7.2 only.

 'Bout the only suggestion I have left for KDE2 'irregularities' is 
to update to KDE 2.1 using Chris Molnar's rpms.  Latest are 20001229 & 
some 20010101  
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001230073458
  While there are some new features, IMO, these updates are really 
bug fixes for the most part.  For excellent update install instructions 
see Civileme's post, Wed Jan 3rd (it ought'a be a FAQ):

Re: [newbie] need help with installing 
KDE 2.1 Beta 1
From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

   Then use MandrakeUpdate to get further bug/security updates.
-- 
Tom Brinkman   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [newbie] Modem will not respond

[Andrew Rice Jr]

Jason Lucier wrote:

Hi
i have just installed Linux madrake version 7.1 on my system pII 400, 196mbram,
voodoo3 video 16mb, ensoniq audio.  Everything works except the modem. 
I have tried every possible combination of settings in the kpp program.
My modem is a Diamond SupraExpress modem, which is not a winmodem. Actually
i had this exact modem working on another system that i had under linux. 
What am i doing wrong.. I am pretty new to linux. Please help
Try using another program to dial up with.. I use one called wvdial and
you can find what you need at www.freshmeat.org
 
ADRJ

Re: [newbie] Japanese NIC being used??

[Paul]

Hi Gavin,

I have a NIC based on the Realtek 8139 chip and that works fine. ANything you can find
with that chip should do without a problem.
I got the card years ago for US$25,--

Paul

> I could use a little help,
> does any use a Japanese based NIC card?
> the number is FNW-9702-T, and the company's name is PCI. the card is a PCI-Bus
> fast ethernet adapter card. I'm having some serious trouble setting it up. If
> you know a card that a lot easier to setup please let me know. I live in Japan
> and its hard to get good information on cards that work well with linux. so far
> only have 3 comm which is very expensive here.
> My address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks for your help.

[newbie] What is the LED font?

[Michael O'Henly]

Hi...

What is the LED font? I mean -- I know what it is -- but what does it 
indicate? My only guess is a web page has specified a font that's not in my 
system without providing a generic alternative

M.

-- 
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design

[newbie] Japanese NIC being used??

[gauin_36]

I could use a little help,
does any use a Japanese based NIC card?
the number is FNW-9702-T, and the company's name is PCI. the card is a PCI-Bus
fast ethernet adapter card. I'm having some serious trouble setting it up. If
you know a card that a lot easier to setup please let me know. I live in Japan
and its hard to get good information on cards that work well with linux. so far
only have 3 comm which is very expensive here.
My address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for your help.

gavin

Re: [newbie] KDE Fonts Gone Hogwild Large - Solutions?

[Joseph Red]

r wrote:
> 
> I'm running LM7.2 & KDE2 .  Problem: the menu fonts are way too big.  It
> happened after I tried adjusting the panel's clock to am/pm.
> 
> How do we get the greatly oversized fonts down to normal?
> 
> Seve

-- 
I had this problem, everything switched to LED font, huge.  I ended up
deleting the .kde directory from my home directory & restarting X.

Joseph Red
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.cautioninc.com

Re: [newbie] SMB 2.0.6 printing under Mandrake 7.2 w/ CUPS

[Till Kamppeter]

Oi,

The config files of the Samba 2.0.7 of Mandrake 7.2 are preconfigured
for usage with CUPS, so if you want to use your old config files you
have to overtake the printer-related lines from the new version. In
addition, it is possible that the the 2.0.6 version of Mandrake 7.1 has
no CUPS support compiled in, because that version of Mandrake was still
using LPD as printing system. So even with a correct /etc/smb.conf it is
possible, that your Samba will not work correctly.

I am not an expert in Samba configuration. So I will forward you mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and he can probably help you in configuring
Samba 2.0.7.

   Till


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I)
> 
> >
> > You are really using Samba 2.0.6? Mandrake 7.2 comes with 2.0.7.
> >
> 
> It seems like a good place to start with this before I go into all of my
> config files is to explain this section.  (I don't know how much I possibly
> broke doing this.)  I started using Samba 2.0.7 with mdk 7.2 on both my main
> Linux box and my brother's main Linux box, but the problems I had where so
> severe and made so little sense to me that I de-installed all of the Samba
> packages and loaded the packages from mdk 7.1.
> 
> II) Here is a brief overview of how the machines where configured:
> 1. My brother's machine was set up to do file services to 2 Windows ME
> clients and a Windows 98 client.  (Then I had my Linux box over there using
> NFS with his machine as the server for a short period.)  He also has two NICs
> in the machine and uses it to act as a filtering masq box through a cable
> modem (Road Runner).  His smb.conf file is configured similar to mine except
> that he uses a different workgroup name and he specifies his internal
> interface for use with SMB.  (interfaces = 192.168.0.0/24 with his subnet
> being 192.168.0).
> 
> 2. My main Linux box has one NIC and at the time of installation I did not
> have a printer to configure.
> 
> III) Here are the problems that I ran into:
> 1. On my brother's system I could connect with Windows ME and Samba on my
> Linux box, but after making three connections, I could make no more.  Also
> the Windows 98 box could see the server, but could not access it.
> 
> 2.  On my system at my place (as opposed to my brother's) I could get Windows
> ME to connect to my Linux box, but I could not get Windows 98 to connect to
> my Linux box.  (Different Linux boxes, slightly different config files, and a
> different Windows 98 machine.  Neither Windows 98 machines had problems
> before related to Samba.)
> 
> IV) All of problems listed above went away when I went back a revision.
> 
> V) The smb.conf files should be attached.  (I attached mine first.)  Please
> note that we do have smb.passwd files set up.  I even destroyed and redid my
> brother's when we started having problems even though I didn't think that it
> would do anything and I proved myself right.  (Logic being if Windows ME can
> log in then Windows 98 should, but I can't think of anything better to do.)
> 
> VI)  It seems to me that before I go much further into my printer
> configuration that I should really resolve the Samba file services portion of
> the problem.  When I browsed through the FAQs that you pointed me to, the
> CUPS updates looked somewhat interesting, but I did not see anything that
> affected me in the Samba update.
> 
> VII)  I posted a message after the one that you responded to, but here is the
> recap anyway:  I eventually got CUPS printing to work through Samba.  What I
> did was to not only switch to 'raw' mode, but also to get rid if the -P
> option. ('print command = lpr-cups -o raw  # using client side printer
> drivers.' instead of 'print command = lpr-cups -P 0 -o raw  # using client
> side printer drivers.')  During this entire period I had my printer named lp.
> 
> VIII) I am not really sure what constitutes as a 'Generic Postscript Driver'
> For Windows 98/ME.  I remember a few years back I used the generic postscript
> driver under Linux to get RH 5.0 (brand new revision back then) to talk to an
> HP 5000M Color over the school LAN :-)
> 
>   
> # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
> # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
> # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too
> # many!) most of which are not shown in this example
> #
> # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
> # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
> # for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you
> # may wish to enable
> #
> # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command "testparm"
> # to check that you have not many any basic syntactic errors.
> #
> #=== Global Settings =
> [global]
> 
> # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name
>workgroup = ncr
> 
> # server string 

[Fwd: [newbie] SMB 2.0.6 printing under Mandrake 7.2 w/ CUPS]

[Till Kamppeter]

 


I)

>
> You are really using Samba 2.0.6? Mandrake 7.2 comes with 2.0.7.
>

It seems like a good place to start with this before I go into all of my
config files is to explain this section.  (I don't know how much I possibly
broke doing this.)  I started using Samba 2.0.7 with mdk 7.2 on both my main
Linux box and my brother's main Linux box, but the problems I had where so
severe and made so little sense to me that I de-installed all of the Samba
packages and loaded the packages from mdk 7.1.

II) Here is a brief overview of how the machines where configured:
1. My brother's machine was set up to do file services to 2 Windows ME
clients and a Windows 98 client.  (Then I had my Linux box over there using
NFS with his machine as the server for a short period.)  He also has two NICs
in the machine and uses it to act as a filtering masq box through a cable
modem (Road Runner).  His smb.conf file is configured similar to mine except
that he uses a different workgroup name and he specifies his internal
interface for use with SMB.  (interfaces = 192.168.0.0/24 with his subnet
being 192.168.0).

2. My main Linux box has one NIC and at the time of installation I did not
have a printer to configure.

III) Here are the problems that I ran into:
1. On my brother's system I could connect with Windows ME and Samba on my
Linux box, but after making three connections, I could make no more.  Also
the Windows 98 box could see the server, but could not access it.

2.  On my system at my place (as opposed to my brother's) I could get Windows
ME to connect to my Linux box, but I could not get Windows 98 to connect to
my Linux box.  (Different Linux boxes, slightly different config files, and a
different Windows 98 machine.  Neither Windows 98 machines had problems
before related to Samba.)

IV) All of problems listed above went away when I went back a revision.

V) The smb.conf files should be attached.  (I attached mine first.)  Please
note that we do have smb.passwd files set up.  I even destroyed and redid my
brother's when we started having problems even though I didn't think that it
would do anything and I proved myself right.  (Logic being if Windows ME can
log in then Windows 98 should, but I can't think of anything better to do.)

VI)  It seems to me that before I go much further into my printer
configuration that I should really resolve the Samba file services portion of
the problem.  When I browsed through the FAQs that you pointed me to, the
CUPS updates looked somewhat interesting, but I did not see anything that
affected me in the Samba update.

VII)  I posted a message after the one that you responded to, but here is the
recap anyway:  I eventually got CUPS printing to work through Samba.  What I
did was to not only switch to 'raw' mode, but also to get rid if the -P
option. ('print command = lpr-cups -o raw  # using client side printer
drivers.' instead of 'print command = lpr-cups -P 0 -o raw  # using client
side printer drivers.')  During this entire period I had my printer named lp.

VIII) I am not really sure what constitutes as a 'Generic Postscript Driver'
For Windows 98/ME.  I remember a few years back I used the generic postscript
driver under Linux to get RH 5.0 (brand new revision back then) to talk to an
HP 5000M Color over the school LAN :-)


# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too
# many!) most of which are not shown in this example
#
# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash) 
# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
# for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you
# may wish to enable
#
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command "testparm"
# to check that you have not many any basic syntactic errors. 
#
#=== Global Settings =
[global]

# workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name
   workgroup = ncr

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
   server string = Jason's SMB server

# This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict
# connections to machines which are on your local network. The
# following example restricts access to two C class networks and
# the "loopback" interface. For more examples of the syntax see
# the smb.conf man page
   hosts allow = 192.168. 127.

# Enabling internationalization:
# you can match a Windows code page with a UNIX character set.
# Windows: 437 (US), 737 (GREEK), 850 (Latin1 - Western European),
# 852 (Eastern Eu.), 861 (Icelandic), 932 (Cyrillic - Russian),
# 936 (Japanese - Shift-JIS), 936 (Simpl. Chinese), 949 (Korean Hangul),
# 950 (Trad. Chin.).
# UNIX: ISO8859-1 (Western European), ISO8859-2 (Eastern Eu.),
# ISO8859-5 (Russian Cyrillic), KOI8-R (Alt-Russ. Cyril.)
# This is an example for french users:
;   client code page = 

Re: [newbie] Modem will not respond

[Maillist]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 21:08:56 -0600, Dennis Myers said:

> On Tuesday 02 January 2001 08:41 pm, you wrote:
>  > Hi i have just installed Linux madrake version 7.1 on my system pII 400,
>  > 196mbram, voodoo3 video 16mb, ensoniq audio.  Everything works except the
>  > modem.  I have tried every possible combination of settings in the kpp
>  > program. My modem is a Diamond SupraExpress modem, which is not a
>  > winmodem.
>  > Actually i had this exact modem working on another system that i had under
>  > linux.  What am i doing wrong.. I am pretty new to linux. Please help
>  
>  
>  Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1"
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>  Content-Description: 
>  
>  If you are absolutely sure that it is not a winmodem, then I suggest you 
>  check the IRQ setting. Is the modem a jumpered modem? If so check the IRQ 
>  setting and then check to see what your bios setting is for modem IRQ. If not 
>  jumpered go to DrakeConf and do HardDrake to see if it is detected there. 
>  (actually you might want to do that first) Again check the bios IRQ as I have 
>  had everything look good in KPPP but no connection cause the bios setting was 
>  not matching what I was plugging into the config. This is not a very likely 
>  solution, but still worth checking. Some one else with more experience jump 
>  in here please.  Good luck,

Also ensure that you're not trying to use /dev/cu(x) (these device points are
now
or soon will be redundant) or /dev/ttyS0 (Com1 for Windows) this last because
it's
most likely that whatever your mousetype - it's going to be linked to
/dev/ttyS0.

Cheers

-- 
  Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected"
   (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)

Re: [newbie] Importing Mail from Communicator to Netscape 6

[Maillist]

On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 00:10:22 -0700, Traci Collins said:

> Hi! I am running Mandrake 7.2 and I just got Netscape 6 installed. I
>  would like to make use of it's ability to handle multiple accounts for
>  my e-mail but I have a number of folders with a large amount of
>  historical e-mail that I would like to preserve access to. Since there
>  is an import utility I thought that everything would be golden but when
>  I launch that tool it takes me to a page where it asks me which
>  application I want to import from and the dialog box has an empty box in
>  which to make my selections. Is there a hidden trick to using the mail
>  import features of Netscape 6? Has anyone already successfully gone
>  through this process that can help get me going? Thanks.

My system for Nescape mail is to go to /home/nsmail (or where ever your
current mail is stored) and remove the summary files and then set Netscape
to read from that mail directory.

I've just moved from LM7.0 to 7.1 after 59 practise installs! and I've used
this
method each time.

I'm not sure if this will work with Ver 6 but it's certainly worked with
various
versions of Netscape on Win95/96/MacOS and Linux.

Cheers

-- 
  Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected"
   (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)

Re: [newbie] need help with installing KDE 2.1 Beta 1

[Johan]

thanks alot, your tips and another guys tips combined worked fine.

-Johan-


At 09:05 2001-01-03 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 03 January 2001 00:21, you wrote:
> > All I have now is 33 rpm files in a dir and I have no idea what
> > to do next.. when I try to unpack a file it says it can't because
> > it depends on another file.. I'm really confused here :)
> >
> > -Johan-
>
>You may need to go through clearing out the conflicts on the previous version
>files with rpm -e--you need to be root, and logged into your directory of rpm
>files to make the following instructions work.  I suggest starting up in
>Graphic mode in IceWM and opening a terminal (DON'T do this in KDE)
>
>first get a report with
>
>rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>
>There is a dependency of one package on a library not included (libkscan)--use
>
>rpm --nodeps filename
>
>to get that one in.
>For the packages showing conflict, build a list of installed packages
>conflicting with
>
>rpm -q (just the beginning of the filename showing the conflict up to the
>first -)
>
>
>rpm -e (the filename reported back)
>
>to delete the old
>
>rmp -ivh filename.rpm to install the new
>
>and then move the file out of the directory
>
>When you are past the conflicts, do all the packages you have left with
>
>rpm -F *.rpm
>
>while you are logged in as root to that directory
>
>Then, still logged in as root, type these three commands and go for coffee
>(don't wait for the first command to finish)
>
>updatedb
>rpm --rebuilddb
>update-menus -v
>
>When you return in 30 minutes or so, type one carriage return, log out and
>log in as a user with KDE.  You should have 2.1 running--you may need to log
>in twice to make everything work.
>
>Civileme

Re: [newbie] Gone for the Holidays(UNSUB)

[leonel martinez]

- Original Message -
From: "John Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 9:45 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Gone for the Holidays


> Well, Merry Christmas to you too  ! ! ! ! !
>
> John Hart
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 843.529.0678 x417
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of CMC
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 12:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Gone for the Holidays
>
>
> I sent several Unsub requests- why am I still getting mail. I need to
cancel
> untill my return from my holiday..
>
> Merry Christmas Everyone
>
>

Re: [newbie] Stop Spaming

[Holly Henry-Pilkington]

"Michael (Nozy) Falzon" wrote:
> 
> Hi
>Sorry forgot to add that in, linux mandrake 6.1
> > Michael,
> >
> > What type of server? If it's a Linux server, linuxconf has a menu for
> > sendmail configuration that's pretty easy to use and will work for those
> > versions of sendmail. For other types of *nix and later versions of
> > sendmail, webmin is great for configuring sendmail.
> >
> 
> > I can write out the steps to compile a sendmail.cf using m4 files if
> > you've got those. Or answer questions you have about the spam control
> > choices on webmin or linuxconf. I think the latest version of webmin may
> > only work with sendmail 8.10 and 8.11 though.
> 
> if u can that wound be good :->  webmin ??? what that

Hi Michael,

I see someone else has already recommended the 8.11 update. It's a good
idea; support for spam blocking and many other things are much improved.
:) But I'm guessing that you're rather new to sendmail and possibly Linux
without previous background in Unix. Logical, since this is the list for
new folks, so don't feel bad.

What I'm going to recommend you try FIRST is to start up Linuxconf and see
if you can successfully get sendmail set up the way you want it from
there. Configuring sendmail is difficult and confusing compiling from m4's
if you're not used to this kind of thing. Ultimately, it's the best choice
for configurability and there are lots of great docs at
http://www.sendmail.org/ and elsewhere online.

If you're willing to do a little more than that, get sendmail 8.11 and
also probably Webmin. You will probably need to install them from the
tar.gz files instead of rpms because you're working with an older kernel,
but someone else can correct me here if I'm wrong about that. Before you
can use Webmin with 8.11, you will need to compile your configuration
file. In Mandrake 7.2, there's a separate package for sendmail-cf that
includes some premade m4s and a moderately useful .mc file. Let us know if
you go this route and I will try to help you with that part.

I can't give you the step by steps for the version you're running,
unfortunately, because I never had that distro and my only <8.10
experience was on HP-UX. But you might also try http://www.google.com and
do a search for install-sendmail. This was a script written for installing
8.9 I believe that should probably work for you with your setup as is. 

One final thought for you: you could try postfix instead of sendmail. I
don't have a lot of personal experience with it but I know people who like
it very much because it is easier to configure and maintain for them than
sendmail and is fairly secure without jumping through some of the more
elaborate configuration hoops that are possible with sendmail.

Okay, this is fairly long and I don't know if I've helped get you any
further along. Let us know where you go next or what questions you still
have. :)

Holly

Re: [newbie] So far, how's it going with the downloadable ISO?

[civileme]

On Wednesday 03 January 2001 04:32, you wrote:
> Hello fellow linuxers.
>
> If I do a fresh install of 7.2 from the downloadable ISO,
> does anyone think there would be any of the bugs
> left over or have they ironed out most of them?
>
> I am getting a Plextor cd recorder and
> I'm considering the possibility of upgrading.
>
> Thanks
>
> Vic

With the iso you can still mess up your partition table by making three 
primary and one "linux extended" partition and ignoring error messages.  You 
can also kill 3D acceleration during video selection in expert mode by 
selecting a color depth other than 16-bit (misconfigured acceleration).

And if you want to do a boot disk or an autoinstall disk, format your 
floppies beforehand.  The formatting program used depends on the drive 
reporing the capacity of the mounted media and the newest floppies are too 
cheap for that, even on supposedly reputable computers.

Civileme